Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-18

curls. Look like Othello. Big dogs drawing
hand carts. Street cars won't stop for YOU.
Only stop at certain places. Indicated by q
sign post on track. The tub the universal
vessel to carry things in. Oval in shape.
One stave longer than the rest So it can be
bound on the carriers back. Carries all the
water up the six or seven pairs Of stone stairs
in the Vienna houses. Clean clothes ditto
from wash. Separate shops for brandy,
beer and wine. Peasant on q spree
carries green twig stuck in his hat
hand, to indicate to the Vienna public his
present mental and moral condition Hacks
hung low on the wheels Drivers in uniform.
Everything's in uniform here Fares low
Ten cents carries you to Dombach or Leopold
stadt, suburban villages, five or six miles dis
tant Emperor and empress are frequently
seen driving on the streets. No fuss; all hats
go of as they go by. Soldiers everywhere;
Sentr,es ditto in q chronic condition of salut.
ne '"ens' Fleas abundant. Everybody
eats at the restaurant. Vienna Is AL restau-
rant on the ground floor. Little home cooking
done "Melange" and rolls are the uni
versal breakfast. "Melange" is half coffee
and half hot milk, always brought you in
a tall tumbler with q big table spoon.
Living here very public. II you hire a room
body's bedroom to get to it, or have some one
pass through yours. Female help, Indifferent
or oblivious to gentlemen dodgers, come right
in at all hours and without knocking, when
on house duty.
Stoves like monuments, nine feet high,
covered with porcelain. Furnace holds about
two quarts Of coal. The rest is monument
Handsome men. good shapes, full chests,
fine bass voices. A pleasure to sit in the rail-
way stations and hear the officials in charge
call the trains Handsome women ditto.
Everybody out on the street and shopping by
or 0 in the morning. Nap at noon.
Gardens full Of families dining in open air at
p. m. They 60 it till o. Music, flowers,
statuary all about Eating not done at gulp.
More happiness to the square yard. News
papers small. Outside world disposed of in
about twenty lines. Lots Of small comic illus.
trated papers. "Trink hallesr on every cor
ner. Round pagodas Girl inside No room for
more. Sells lemonade, orangeade, soda water
and other light foggy fluid. People hero al
ways swallowing something.
Elevator at hotel. Big fuss over it, Two
men IN uniform to run it. Pace, mile an hour.
Beds all single. Everybody seems to sleep
single here One more bed on top of bed quilt
Very light, full Of feathers, in green silk bag
Dtii dSho cNcl "ueTe. ok stories. Full OF
soldiers. Soldiers everywhere. Drilling
everywhere. Drumming everywhere. loot
ing everywhere. Soldiers marching past no.
tel at in the morning Always getting
ready to kill somebody. Same way all over
Europe. Never out of sight Of bayonet
Nations here awfully afraid of each other
Singular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked.
iron handle. Reaches to the ground. To-
bacco shops all run by government. Keen
stamps also. Invariable sign over door, *.
X" king and Kaiser1. The emperor doe
all the tobacco business. Not much tobacco
in their cigars. Washed out. Prices of
groceries and dry goods always marked on
article in shop windows. Helps one to learn
the language. Can read and translate as yo,
walk along.
Cultivated shade trees lay over anything in
America. Six rows, full grown, in some
streets, with walks underneath. Fountains
benches everywhere. Business streets all
shaded, not bare to sun like Broadway or
Fifth avenue. Bath houses five stories bicb
Everybody here really washes at the hath
and not by the bed room wash basin Went tn
one. Girl cashier Took my money Turned
me over to another girl. Black eyed. Good
looking Showed me bath room. Went in with
me- Turned on water, hot and cold. Both of
US wait for tub to fill up Wondered il she'd
ever leave Strange country. Novel
customs. Tab fills up. Girl leaves.
Examine door. No lock. Took off
collar. Girl bursts in again. Brought
more towels And then aprons. Wondered
what they were for. Found out. INQUIRED
OF girl What do you suppose. To put on
one behind and the other before and sit still in
while, after using the hot water, the girl
came back to turn on the cold. No handling
OF water by customer in Viennese bath. Girl
must do 1t all. No such place as Vienna
Known IN Austria Austrian name, Wien.
from The bit OF river running through it.
Dahuoe river in rear Of city. Timber RATS
Always passing. Miles and miles of cultivated
pine forests in Austria. Pass through them
Nv ran. No underbrush. Trees tall and
''rslghfs by tens Of thousands Pm.